Snelled-fish-hook holder.



,C. P. WEST. SNELLED FISH HOOK HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 190a.

909,7 22. Patented Jan. 12, 1-909.

19M" use:

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES F. WEST, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SNELLED-FISH-HOOK HOLDER.

T 0 all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. Wnsr, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Snelled-Fish-Hook Holder, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of a holder for a snelled fish hook embodying asocket for the hook, a clamp for the snell thereof, and a carrier forsaid members, thus producing a practical, easily operated, effective andinexpensive device, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

For the purpose of explaining the invention, the accompanying drawingillustrates a satisfactory reduction of the same to practice, but theimportant instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to beunderstood that the invention is not limited to the specific arrangementand organization shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a snelled fish hook holderembodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a similar view with snelledfish hooks applied thereto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings :A designates a bar, which constitutes theshank of the device, the same having at opposite ends the socket B andclamp C. In practice, said members A, B, and C are composed of acontinuous piece of wire, the members B, 0 being formed by coiling thewire into spiral shape, the member B extending in the longitudinaldirection of the shank, and the member C extending transversely thereto.

The member B constitutes a receiver for the points of fish hooks, whilethe bodies of the latter bear against the lower end of said member andso control said points in the member. The member C has its coils orconvolutions adapted to receive between them the snells of the fishhooks, and so by their resiliency clamp the same, it being seen thatwhen the hooks are located and engaged primarily in the socket B, thesnells are directed along the shank A to the clamp C, and when they aredrawn taut, somewhat resiliently, due to the coils of the socket, theyare forced between adjacent convolutions of said clamp, whereby thelatter controls the snells, and as the socket controls the hooks, it isevident that the snelled fish hooks may be nicely, conveniently andsafely 1 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. July 24, 1908.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

Serial No. 445,097.

carried in a pocket, package or other receptacle, it being seen that theinner end of the socket sufficiently removes the points of the hooksfrom injuriouscontact of the hand thereagainst and prevents said pointsfrom being caught in surrounding objects, while portions of the snellsextend along the shank, which latter is sufficiently rigid so as to beprevented from folding, and thus bending, folding and creasing of saidsnells are also prevented, while the coils keep such portions stretchedtaut.

It is evident also that a snell may be readily drawn out and so removedfrom the convolutions of the clamp, when the hook of said snell may bedisengaged from the socket, thus completely disconnecting the snelledfish hook from the holder.

The bar or shank A supports the socket and clamp, and properly spacesthem apart, and the clamp is adapted to take hold of snells ofdifi'erent lengths.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is 7 1. A holder for a snelled fish hookembodying a socket, a clamp, and a carrier, said socket and clamp beingon opposite ends of said carrier, the several members named beingintegral of a continuous piece of material.

2. A holder for a snelled fish hook composed of a bar, a coil socket anda coil clamp, said socket and clamp being on opposite ends of said bar,the several members named being continuous of each other and formed ofwire.

3. A holder for a snelled fish hook composed of a socket member, a clampmember, and a longitudinally extending-carrier member, said socketmember extending in the longitudinal direction of said carrier, and saidclamp member extending in the trans verse direction thereof, both socketand clamp members being of coil-construction and the several membersnamed formed of a continuous piece of material.

A. A holder for a snelled fish hook composed of a socket, a clamp, and acarrier for said members, said socket and clamp members being ofresilient construction and continuities of said carrier.

CHARLES F. WEST.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, HARRY G. DALTON.

